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TIL That some gifted children suffer from depression because they’ve already realized death is inevitable and life is meaningless.

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WVlX TIL When JFK was running for office in 1946, his father paid a man with the same name as his biggest opponent to run for election, thus confusing voters and taking votes away from the true opponent.
8arNK TIL about the "Cash for Kids" scandal where two judges sent thousands of kids to jail in exchange for money from a for-profit detention centers.
7Nab TIL In WWII, a soldier named Don Karkos was hit with shrapnel and blinded his right eye, 64 years later while working at a barn, a horse head butted him in the same spot, threw him against the wall and suddenly his vision was restored.
ADawd TIL the Queen bee is too fat to fly after being pregnant, so when the worker bees want her to relocate the hive they chase her around the hive for week until she’s skinny enough to fly.
QJZoX TIL that the old man on the cross in the music video for “Heart-Shaped Box” by Nirvana had bowel cancer during filming and at one point his stomach burst open, leading to him being taken off set in an ambulance. The band members and the director then sat in silence for an hour.